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Coal Bed, 22 feet below Limestone, on west bank of Castleman’s 
river, ¢ mile above Zook’s Run ford, and on North Fork at old 
ing ; carries 5 feet of Shale, containing 1 foot of ore-balls. 
Coal bed A, 70 feet below B; 22 inches thick, at Shroff’s 
Bridge over Castleman’s river. 
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coal are here omitted]. Analyses of specimens frou one of the 
called the Ferriferous Bed afforded as a mean of two analyses: 
Volatile matters and water__..__....__.__-- 17°125 
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That both the 6-foot and the 3-foot Ursina ae situated at the 
western limit of the Ist Bituminous Coal Basin, should have only 
17 cent. of volatile matters,—not more than the coals of the 
eidadtey The Somerset Coun s are almost perfectly 
undisturbed. os coal = vin gangway showe r cent. ne 
volatile su this is no grvarer than the ree . 
0 proper scheme of the rates of debituminization to easting wl 
to disturbance, can be obtained until all the analyses of each the 
in sd series of te Measures shall be tabulated apart fi “Ga ting 
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x the int of specific a upon the percentages of 
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